You Can't Hurry Love (film)
| You Can't Hurry Love | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Richard Martini |
| Produced by |
Jonathan D. Krane Simon R. Lewis Lawrence Kasanoff William J. Rouhana Jr. Anthony Santa Croce Ellen Steloff |
| Written by | Richard Martini |
| Starring |
David Leisure Scott McGinnis Anthony Geary Bridget Fonda |
| Music by | Bob Esty |
| Cinematography |
Peter Lyons Collister John Schwartzman |
| Edited by | Richard Candib |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Lightning Pictures |
Release dates | January 20, 1988 |
Running time | 92 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $333,152 (USA) |
You Can't Hurry Love is a 1988 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Martini. A guy who moonlights as a low-budget director of commercials is looking for someone to love, so he pays a dating service and is videotaped on several occasions. The film shows the many women who seduce our hero, until he finally finds his true love...
Plot
Eddie Hayes is a newcomer to Los Angeles who seeks to take a job to re-start his life after a failed relationship in his Ohio home town. His slacker cousin, Skip, sets him up with a job interview at an advertising company, headed by the eccentric Peter Newcomb, who instead hooks Eddie up with his punk half-brother, Tony, at a beachside surfboard shop in handing out flyers. Eddie meets a potential new girlfriend, named Peggy Kellogg, who works for a dating service which Eddie decides to moonlight as a director of interview videos for the dating service to be close to Peggy. Eddie soon puts himself in front of the camera to try to pick up a potential girlfriend for himself to settle down with. As he goes on a series of disastrous blind dates with various women, each one stranger then the last one, will Eddie ever hook up with Peggy despite the fact that she has a boyfriend, and engaged?
DVD release
The film has been released on DVD by Lions Gate Home Entertainment as a double feature with Love Hurts.
Cast
- David Leisure - Peter Newcomb
- Scott McGinnis - Skip
- Anthony Geary - Tony
- Bridget Fonda - Peggy Kellogg
- Frank Bonner - Chuck Hayes
- Lu Leonard - Miss Frigget
- Merete Van Kamp - Monique
- David Packer - Eddie Hayes
- Charles Grodin - Mr. Glerman
- Sally Kellerman - Kelly Bones
- Kristy McNichol - Rhonda
- Luana Anders - Macie Hayes
- Jake Steinfeld - Sparky
- Judy Balduzzi - Glenda
- Danitza Kingsley - Tracey
- Kimber Sissons - Brenda
- Kimberly Foster - Girl Reading Book
- Winifred Freedman - Sample Videotape #2
- Michael Sorich - Drug Dealer
External links
- You Can't Hurry Love at the Internet Movie Database
- You Can't Hurry Love at Rotten Tomatoes
- You Can't Hurry Love at AllMovie